Born in Southern California, Ed Matuskey escaped to the cool greenery of the Pacific Northwest as soon as possible, where he got a writing degree at the University of Puget Sound. Diploma in hand, Ed immediately set out with a determined air...and used his degree to do everything except write stories (his work emails were true works of art). However, he stayed creatively adjacent to his love of fiction writing by playing and running many, many role-playing games, of the live-action and tabletop variety. A couple decades later, he figures it's finally time to get to work--which is why his first published piece is a tarot deck rather than a novel. Look, it's all about the journey, not the destination, all right?